Admission requirements

Application and admission

Further information

Approximately five months prior to the intended start of your studies, you should submit your application for admission to FAU’s Central Office for International Affairs (RIA) if you will be coming to FAU as part of one of the following programmes:

This application must be submitted online. You will be sent a link to the application via e-mail after we have received the nomination from your home university or your scholarship organisation. Nomination by the home university does not automatically qualify students for a place at FAU. Admission is only granted after the FAU subject co-ordinators have assessed the application documents.

Deadlines for online applications at FAU:

15 May for the following winter semester

15 November for the following summer semester

The following documents must be submitted along with the application for admission:

evidence of one or two years studying a degree programme in your home country (transcript of records). Copies are sufficient, original documents are not required. A translation in German or English must be submitted if the certificate is not in German or English.

Erasmus students and students with no knowledge of German only: proof of English language proficiency (see below) – please ask your university which level is required

confirmation from your home university or scholarship foundation of nomination as an exchange student or student participating in an exchange programme

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Students who are coming to FAU to finish a final thesis and will, for example, be conducting research in laboratories rather than attending seminars or lectures, must submit confirmation of supervision from an FAU professor to the Central Office for International Affairs along with their application. You can find the template for confirmation of supervision here.

Applicants are notified in writing whether their application to FAU was successful as soon as possible after the end of the application period. The admissions letter contains information on the enrolment process (place, dates). The admissions letter must be kept safely, as it is essential for applying for a visa and must be presented at enrolment. Exchange students or students participating in an exchange programme may only be admitted for one or two semesters.

Applicants may only be admitted in subjects included in the agreement between FAU and their home universities. However, exchange students may attend other courses and receive credits for them.